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6 unusual facts about Shaw Festival


Charlotte Moore

She has performed over the years at the Shaw Festival, and she co-produced a cabaret series in the late 1980s at The Rivoli in Toronto.

Geraint Wyn Davies

In Canada he appeared over several seasons with the Shaw Festival and Stratford Festival of Canada.

Goldie Semple

Semple's stage work included performances with the Alberta Theatre Projects, Canadian Stage Company, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Shaw Festival, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Tarragon Theatre and Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company.

Jane Mallett

Mallett's stage career includes performances with the Shaw Festival of Canada and the Stratford Festival of Canada.

Stuart Hughes

Stuart Hughes (born August 9, 1959 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian actor known for his leading roles on the stages of Shaw Festival, Stratford Festival, Soulpepper Theatre Company (of which he is a founding member), and many other Canadian theatre companies.

Sydney Sturgess

She starred as the Countess of Brocklehurst in the Shaw Festival's production of The Admirable Crighton, appeared in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg at the Manitoba Theatre Center, and played "Mrs. Higgins" in another run of Shaw's Pygmalion at the Nottingham Playhouse in England.



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Other notables included Stratford and Shaw festival veteran Jonathan Welsh, well known television and film actors Kim Coates (from Prison Break) and Barry Morse (from The Fugitive and Space: 1999), Chas Lawther, Kirsten Kieferle (from Degrassi: The Next Generation), and Marina Anderson-Carradine, best known for managing (and then marrying) actor David Carradine.